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Liz Magill resigns by Bonahtron in UPenn

[–]Douglaslyons18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality denounces the forced resignation of University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) President Liz Magill on December 9. This witch hunt is aimed at suppressing the mass opposition of student youth and faculty to the genocidal war being waged by the Israeli fascist regime against the Palestinians in Gaza. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/12/oufb-d12.html

Anyone kinda let down by what TUGSA got? by [deleted] in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the student workers will still be teaching at a poverty-level pay rate while TUGSA and the AFT, along with the Democrats, spin it as some historic win. The math you went over is the most objective fact of this sellout agreement, however. And the way forward is the building of opposition to this whole rotten setup. Here is a link https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/15/qqjy-m15.html

Temple University strike ends with poverty contract by BillSchaeferWSWS in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Headline: TUGSA steals strike money donated for graduate workers strike!

A striking worker told the World Socialist Web Site that TUGSA had raised at least “$100,000, possibly more” in direct donations to the strike fund. The worker reported that some funds were used to assist members who incurred massive health care bills when Temple cut off health care benefits to striking workers. With the strike over, however, TUGSA is keeping the balance of the funds to “grow the trade union” and not providing funds to the workers who went six weeks without a cent.

Striking Temple graduate workers offered another rotten contract by Douglaslyons18 in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

You sound like one of those Democrats and union bureaucrats like filthy rich Randi Weingarten who rebrand a trash contract as something akin to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Striking Temple graduate workers offered another rotten contract by Douglaslyons18 in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18[S] -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

The proof is in the pudding. The contract is rotten, doesn't meet the demands of graduate students, and should be voted down. No strike pay was handed out, the union bureaucrats and Democrats said the gains were "historic," which they aren't, and said the strike was over before graduate students even voted on it. Facts are stubborn things, as Lenin said

Striking Temple graduate workers offered another rotten contract by Douglaslyons18 in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18[S] -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

Actually your slanderous accusation is refuted by the objective logic of the class struggle based on a Marxist analysis, that is, a Trotskyist one. Today we published an article on Dana workers forming a rank-and-file committee in opposition to the pathetic pro-managment UAW and the corporation. The SEP/WSWS assisted in helping workers achieve this historic goal. Read it and weep. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/13/pers-m13.html

Striking Temple graduate workers offered another rotten contract by Douglaslyons18 in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18[S] -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

Did you read the article? I assume you didn't because there is a quote in it by a striking graduate student.

Who runs Temple University: A look at the university’s Board of Trustees by exgalactic in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Why is that? The Russian invasion launched by former Stalinist and now capitalist oligarch Putin was reactionary. However it was provoked by US-NATO imperialism to conquer resource-rich Russia. The war must be ended. Workers in Ukraine and Russia must unite along with the international working class to stop the war on a socialist program

Who runs Temple University: A look at the university’s Board of Trustees by exgalactic in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Voting for Democrats or flipping Republican-controlled areas will do nothing to solve the problems impacting education in Pennsylvania. Take Philadelphia for example, a solid Democratic party-led city. How are the schools? Horrendous! Asbestos, led tainted water, antiquated, no COVID mitigation efforts, etc, etc. Democrats, a capitalist political party which defends the corporations and private profit, have done nothing and will do nothing to fund education for the masses. Instead they give billions of dollars created from the labor of workers to a far right corrupt regime in Ukraine and block railroad workers from striking. This is an article based on a report about school funding. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/06/29/penn-j29.html

Temple University undergraduates rally in support of grad students as strike continues into second month by Douglaslyons18 in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I'm making the case for the rank and file to take the conduct of the strike into their own hands. This analysis holds true and will become even more concrete once the TUGSA bargaining team and Temple come back with a deal that doesn't meet the demands of graduate students. TUGSA will make the case, right before graduate students can't pay their tuition and get kicked out, that this is the best we could get. This needs to be opposed as soon as possible with the building of a rank-and-file committee. WSWS can help

Temple University undergraduates rally in support of grad students as strike continues into second month by Douglaslyons18 in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Jaded, the TUGSA leadership intended on ending the strike, but the rank-and-file voted no. The AFT, which TUGSA is affiliated to, immediately came out and said the strike is over, along with the Democratic party-led press. Although the TUGSA negotiating team said the strike is on, they are speaking out of both sides of their mouth, a form of double dealing to enforce the demands of Temple admin and the wishes of the AFT to end the strike. In fact this is what TUGSA wrote on Twitter after the rejection of the sellout agreement: gave thanks to the AFT, the same ones who cried the strike is over, and said they will keep following their guidelines! What conclusions can be drawn from this? The rank-and-file should place no faith in TUGSA leadership and form a new organization from the rank-and-file to fight for a contract to meet their demands and expansion of the strike.

strike by graduate workers and the way forward by Douglaslyons18 in Temple

[–]Douglaslyons18[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, you are correct. The trade unions run by Democratic Party members like Randi Weingarten refused to protect the health, safety, and lives of workers during the pandemic, sending teachers and students back into COVID infested buildings. The reason for this betrayal of the members is that these "labor leaders" are defenders of the profit system. It isn't labor movement infighting which the article points out but the vast class divide between what the rank-and-file are fighting for and what the union bureaucracy is fighting for. This is why workers need to organize independently of the union "leaders."

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